Escambia County Sheriff’s Office divers were on the scene Tuesday night and Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard was participating in the search.

The search was called off Wednesday afternoon due to weather conditions, but will be resumed in the morning.

The 7 p.m. crash involved four tractor trailers and a van pulling a U-haul trailer. It occurred in the westbound lane of I-10 and “one of the tractors traveled over the concrete bridge rail and fell into the water below,” the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release.

The crash's chain of events was not released by the FHP Wednesday evening.

David Mattadeen, 56, of Palm Bay, was driving a 1988 Ford tractor trailer and had minor injuries, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

William J. Smith Sr., the 64-year-old driver of the U-Haul, was taken to Santa Rosa Medical Center along with his passenger, 85-year-old Dorothy Smith. Both of the Granbury, Texas, residents had minor injuries.

Two were missing and considered “possible fatalities in the water,” the FHP report said. The confirmed death was one of the two missing.

One other tractor trailer driver, who was not identified by the FHP, was treated for minor injuries by emergency personnel responding to the scene.

Weather conditions were deteriorating at the time of the accident, the report said.

Reports indicated that some of the rescue crews encountered trouble of their own on the icy overpass.

“It was chaos out there,” said Bill Thompson, chief of the East Milton Fire Department.

The bridge was still closed Wednesday, Thompson said.

“There is debris from one end to another,” he said Wednesday. “They are moving the last two 18-wheelers off the bridge today.”

Escambia County Sheriff’s Office divers were on the scene Tuesday night and Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard was participating in the search.

The search was called off Wednesday afternoon due to weather conditions, but will be resumed in the morning.

The 7 p.m. crash involved four tractor trailers and a van pulling a U-haul trailer. It occurred in the westbound lane of I-10 and “one of the tractors traveled over the concrete bridge rail and fell into the water below,” the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release.

The crash's chain of events was not released by the FHP Wednesday evening.

David Mattadeen, 56, of Palm Bay, was driving a 1988 Ford tractor trailer and had minor injuries, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

William J. Smith Sr., the 64-year-old driver of the U-Haul, was taken to Santa Rosa Medical Center along with his passenger, 85-year-old Dorothy Smith. Both of the Granbury, Texas, residents had minor injuries.

Two were missing and considered “possible fatalities in the water,” the FHP report said. The confirmed death was one of the two missing.

One other tractor trailer driver, who was not identified by the FHP, was treated for minor injuries by emergency personnel responding to the scene.

Weather conditions were deteriorating at the time of the accident, the report said.

Reports indicated that some of the rescue crews encountered trouble of their own on the icy overpass.

“It was chaos out there,” said Bill Thompson, chief of the East Milton Fire Department.

The bridge was still closed Wednesday, Thompson said.

“There is debris from one end to another,” he said Wednesday. “They are moving the last two 18-wheelers off the bridge today.”